What is “runtime”?

Question

I have heard about things like \"C Runtime\", \"Visual C++ 2008 Runtime\", \".NET Common Language Runtime\", etc.

• What is \"runtime\" exactly?

Answer 1

These sections of the MSDN documentation deal with most of your questions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8bs2ecf4(VS.71).aspx

I hope this helps.

Thanks, Damian